With these timeless lines, the famous diplomate, politician and Indian freedom fighter Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (née Swarupa ...

Fifty years later, alas, both authoritarianism and dynastic politics have returned to haunt us, the only difference being ...

NEW DELHI, (IANS) – The origins of the fragile relationship between Jawaharlal Nehru’s sister, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, and her niece, Indira Gandhi, which ended with the aunt becoming one of ...

The prime minister’s very able and stunning-looking sister, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, had been appointed India’s ambassador—the first—to Moscow. Was this nepotism? It was and was not.

Pandit Nehru participated in the ceremonies for most of the time and was Joined by Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit in some of them. The marriage took place according o Vedic rites which were conducted ...

Among others in attendance were Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, who in 1953 became the first woman President of the UN General Assembly, just one of a series of cracks she made in the proverbial glass ceiling, ...

Mridula Sarabhai, Amrit Kaur, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit and Sarojini Naidu had already blazed a trail for women. And in the 1970s, their legatees became part of many causes for justice and change.

There was no sibling rivalry here, only mutual admiration between Jawaharlal Nehru and sister Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit. And rightly so! Pandit was no less a political figure than her brother. In 1937, ...

NEW YORK, NY (IANS) – When Ruchira Kamboj took the gavel on December 1 at the Security Council, she was following in the footsteps of an illustrious Indian woman, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit who ...

Kadri stated that these letters include Nehru's correspondence with Edwina Mountbatten, Albert Einstein, Jayaprakash Narayan, Padmaja Naidu, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Aruna Asaf Ali, Babu Jagjivan Ram, ...

Among them are letters to Albert Einstein, Jayaprakash Narayan, Edwina Mountbatten, Padmaja Naidu, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Aruna Asaf Ali, and Babu Jagjivan Ram. "We understand that these documents may ...